There is a monster lurking out there, a star that has blown away the upper limits for what was ever thought possible for a sun in the universe. Blazing with an brightness that is literally unimaginable to the human mind, ten … Read more →
With the help of Nasa’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have now realised that the big guys of the universe, the most massive stars, do indeed form just like their smaller stellar neighbours. Gas and dust in an interstellar cloud very slowly starts … Read more →
Esa’s Planck spacecraft has finished scanning the entire sky in it’s mission to map the light from the beginning of time. Quite a while ago…13.7 billion years in fact, the Big Bang happened, an event of unimaginable power that spewed out all the matter, … Read more →